Wycliffe Showcase - Grove Booklets

Join us for this term's community showcase, where Wycliffe presents current work within our community for a wider audience.

About the event

The event will feature three of our Wycliffe academic community who have recently been published. We will hear how they were drawn to their research topic, and how they condensed thousands of words into these short booklets. We also hope to touch upon how others can get their own work published, and what Grove Booklets can offer. All are welcome!

Wycliffe Hall has set itself the modest task of fostering a New Renaissance of Christian scholarship, leadership and culture. As both a Christian community and a Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford, we want to see transformational scholarship, leadership and culture, born out of Christian community, offering the truth, beauty and goodness of the gospel to the world.

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Event details

Date: Monday 19th January 2026

Time: 5.30-6.30pm, followed by a drinks reception

Venue: Wycliffe Hall, 52-54 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PW

Getting here: Wycliffe Hall is on major bus routes. Limited parking may be available on site (please contact us by email if you have any special access requirements) and pay-and-display on-street parking is available close by in Norham Gardens.

Photography and filming: This event will include photography and filming: please contact us directly if you have any questions about this: conferences@wycliffe.ox.ac.uk.

All are welcome: the event is open to the public and free to attend.

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Philip Miti

Philip Miti is Zambian and British and a doctoral candidate at the University of Heidelberg. He has been active in the Diocese of Europe, Germany for several years and is pursuing ordination. His interests include the doctrine of Scripture, the Hebrew Bible and psychoanalysis.

Jacob Wigley

Jacob Wigley is a practical theologian and member of the General Synod. He is passionate about bridging the gap between academic theology and everyday practical ministry. Jacob is based in the Diocese of Oxford and lives with his wife, Hannah.

Simon Billington

Simon J. Billington is a professional actor, theatre director and priest in the Diocese of London. Before training for ministry at Wycliffe Hall, Simon worked around the United Kingdom in both classical and children's theatre. Simon is serving his curacy in a parish in North London, where alongside his parochial ministry, Simon researches and explores the relationship between acting methodologies and Christian ethics.

If Jesus is Lord, in what sense can he be a friend? How can authority and friendship be part of a relationship between two people without one or the other being compromised? This book explores the significance of John 15 and Jesus’ words about friendship, and reflects on the pastoral implications for those with pastoral authority.

What is the theological relationship between body and soul? This book explores what some key theologians have claimed and offers a helpful way of understanding the unity of body and soul as taught in Scripture.

Theodrama is a term coined by the prolific theologian Hans Urs von Balthazar to establish a means of engaging with the revelation of God through a theatrical lens. This book explores the phenomena and dynamics of drama as a way of understanding human relationships with God, his world and each other.

Wycliffe Showcase - Grove Booklets

Monday 19th January 2026, 5.30pm

About the event

Event details

Showcasing:

Philip Miti

Jacob Wigley

Simon Billington

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